“He’s a very calm, relaxed, methodical fighter, and because he is that, I have to say – I’m sorry I have to say – yes, that is a dirty fighter,” said Rutten, a veteran broadcaster who closed out his own fighting career with a 28-4-1 record in 2006. “Maybe when he was looking down and then pushing the fingers in the eye, maybe that happened. I didn’t check that out.

“But he knows exactly what he’s doing at any given time, and his fingers were definitely in [Teixeira’s] face – and for a long time. He was constantly rubbing them in his face. So yeah, I have to say yes.”

Jones immediately took criticism for the eye-pokes in the April 26 pay-per-view headliner, which took place at Maryland’s Baltimore Arena. Jones picked up his record seventh UFC light-heavyweight title defense with the unanimous-decision win. Early in the fight, he was warned about eye-pokes, but Jones continued to extended an open hand toward Teixeira without any point deductions.

“I mean, people are always going to go overboard with Jon Jones because they don’t like him,” he said.

“[Jones] poked him in the eye twice, and then the referee warned him about it, and he never did it again,” White continued. “They’re making it sound like he was targeting his eyes and sticking his fingers in his eyes the entire fight and nobody did anything about it. He did it twice, he was warned, and he never did it again in a five-round fight.”

Check out Rutten, as well as co-host Kenny Rice and guest host/UFC fighter Miesha Tate, discuss the fight above.

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